Stanberry v. State

RAKER, Judge.

We granted Petitioner’s request for a writ of certiorari to answer the following question:

Did the lower court err in denying Petitioner’s motion to suppress the contents of his suitcase which was left on a Greyhound bus during a twenty-minute stop at the Maryland House and which was searched in Petitioner’s absence after police officers held it up and asked the passengers on the bus whether it belonged to them and received no response?

I

On August 16, 1993, the Maryland State Police were monitoring Greyhound buses at the Maryland House rest stop on Interstate 1-95 as part of a…